• Factor Analysis and Questions of Causation

    HSPH Biostatistics and DFCI Data Science Colloquium Thursday April 9 at 4:00pm HSPH, FXB 301 Tyler VanderWeele, PhD, John L. Loeb And Frances Lehman Loeb, Professor of Epidemiology, Faculty Affiliate - Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Factor analysis is often employed to evaluate the extent to which a single factor […]

  • When Large p Is a Blessing

    HSPH Biostatistics and DFCI Data Science Colloquium Thursday April 9 at 4:00pm HSPH, FXB 301 Zhijin Wu, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics, Brown University Biomedical research has benefited tremendously from the breakthroughs in biotechnology in the last two decades that enabled simultaneous quantifications of a large number of biomolecules (DNA/RNA/proteins). Such data collected at the -omics […]